Anthony Burgess's versatility is indisputable. He is a novelist,
playwright, composer and linguist, as well as a critic whose dissenting
views on modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and
magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times
and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who
confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values.
Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork
Orange are not only cautionary satires...